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The Graduate Student Progress (GSP) allows programs to track graduate student progress and view many elements of graduate student activity in one place.
Support for preparing graphics and figures for publication, creating interactive visualizations, or using data visualization techniques to effectively explore data.
Northwestern University's agreement with Microsoft offers Microsoft Office software, core client access licenses, and operating system upgrades for University-owned computers
RDSS provides secure on-premise data storage for researchers.
The Research Secure Data Enclave provides a secure cloud environment within Google Cloud (GC) for researchers who work with Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and other data that requires compliance with NIST SP 800-171.
The University Libraries offers a variety of laser printers, plotters, and scanners.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a cloud-based digital marketing automation system that Alumni Relations and Development (ARD), and their campus partners, use to send out broadcast email communications to their constituents.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.
CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
This category includes: ALMA, Primo, Archive Space, and Aeon.
Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
The Office for Research, McCormick School of Engineering, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Materials Science and Engineering Department have jointly licensed the CrystalMaker Suite for use by all students at Northwestern University.
Northwestern Information Technology provides traditional phone services to the Northwestern community that include desk phones, conference room phones, voicemail, and software phone clients. Custom configurations for analog voice service or SIP connections can also be provided upon request and consultation.
Northwestern provides three wireless networks to access the Internet. Each network is unique to University affiliation and device type.
OneDrive offers secure, cloud-based storage that lets you seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere in the world, at any time.
Blackthorn Events is a Salesforce-native app that Northwestern has configured to work within our implementation of Kindsight’s ascend product. This tool helps manage event registration and reporting by collecting event RSVPs through an online form integrated directly into our CRM. Functionality supports both in-person and online events that require various degrees of complexity.
Northwestern provides lecture capture services for University schools, departments, and business units provide users with the ability to record and archive lecture videos for live or on-demand viewing from a web browser.
OWN Backup (OwnBackup) is a cloud-based backup and recovery solution designed to protect and manage data in cloud environments, particularly for Salesforce.
GitHub provides hosting for git repositories and other services and tools for software development teams.